Effect of early procedural pain experience on subsequent pain responses among premature infants

Background and objectives: Preterm newborns are exposed to repeated procedural pain during their NICU stay. Acute pain has negative short-term effects and may have adverse neurodevelopmental sequelae. Disagreement among researchers exists in the direction of pain responses. We aimed at evaluating th...

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Main Authors: Atef El-Sayed Donia, Omar Atef Tolba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2016-06-01
Series:Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S111066381630009X